Mozilla has it’s missteps, on the other hand, they are still better than the other Browser Vendors out there and I haven’t seen a viable Firefox Fork out there that works for me. Plus it seems the Looking Glass addon was inert unless specifically enabled by the user, so I don’t see the harm tbh.

It seems the other way to me? What they’re doing instead is slowly retrofitting pieces of Servo into Gecko piecemeal. (or at least, some kind of Rust equivalent to the C/C++/JS code being replaced) Servo would then be dead or explicitly turned into some staging ground for Gecko.

I will go beyond alleging a performance improvement, I will attest to it. Surprisingly enough, the improvement includes Google properties such as Gmail and YouTube. They are both more responsive in Firefox now than Chromium or Chrome.
On the extension side, I do not use a large number. Those which I do, however, still function.

I freely admit that the plural of anecdote is not “data”, but I would feel remiss not to share how impressed I am with Quantum. Pocket has always annoyed me, so I certainly do not see Mozilla’s actions as unimpeachable and am only giving them credit for Quantum because I feel they deserve it.

Based on this, Quantum was a balanced update where the team had do sacrifice the old extension API. Also, it’s not that they’ve removed extensions completely. (And no, I’m not talking about you Looking Glass)

How much? How much would it cost to stop this, over and above Mozilla’s existing income? Why doesn’t Mozilla, as a user first organization, tell its users “we need this much money or we’re going to add the looking glass extension”?

When you are donating to Mozilla, you are donating to the Foundation, which is not involved much in Firefox, but in a lot of other tech and policy advocacy things. This includes net neutrality lobbying, discussing the copyright reform in Europe and support many many tech teaching projects all over the globe.

You’d be hurting all those projects instead of Firefox development over your anger with the product.

Making your anger known in a different fashion will have more impact.

(FWIW: I don’t want to keep you from stopping to donate if you don’t feel like Mozilla Foundation is not following their mission anymore)

Regrettably, the net neutrality thing didn’t pan out, I’m not sure about the copyright work, and the educational stuff is probably better left to local efforts (if my own experience is to be believed).

I’d rather they focus on Firefox, Thunderbird, and documentation and free up people and resources to go do other things.

Regrettably, the net neutrality thing didn’t pan out, I’m not sure about the copyright work, and the educational stuff is probably better left to local efforts (if my own experience is to be believed).

Policy is no “put enough money here, it’ll work” game. The debate about net neutrality has been going back and forth in the recent years and Mozilla has always been involved. Losing Mozilla as a campaigner there would not be helpful in any way.

The educational stuff is probably better left to local efforts (if my own experience is to be believed).

This is obviously very personal, but in my experience, Mozilla has reach to a lot of people and other groups that other tech groups can only dream of. I would highly recommend looking at who’s around at MozFest. Also, the Foundation does a lot of these things through co-operations like with the Ford Foundation, which are usually quite productive and the output brings a lot of worthwhile reading.

I’d rather they focus on Firefox, Thunderbird, and documentation and free up people and resources to go do other things.

Thunderbird obviously left out, Mozilla Corporation has most employees on precisely these products. It is their focus.

The Corp is just not the Foundation and merging them also makes no sense, IMHO.

Firefox is the only relevant browser that isn’t working for the corporate interests of big silicon valley companies.
I’d rather have my employer misstep here and there, but listen to feedback than not at all.
Besides, why is it always the idealized non-profit that gets the dirt, but not those working for shareholder value.. %shrugs%

I wonder if there’s some lightweight browser that just displays HTML/CSS webpages and maybe runs some JavaScript on trusted websites, without WebRTC, WebGL, WebDRM and other bloatware that is being baked into the web standards these days, eats resources and extends the attack surface.

Why can’t modern software just do the damn thing it’s asked to without doing anything behind my back?